In commemoration of LGBTQ History Month and National Coming Out Day, Campus Pride announced its “Best of the Best” list of colleges and universities across the nation. And New England has four of them — Tufts University, MIT, UMass Amherst and University of Vermont.
“Today college campuses must ‘come out’ and be visible as LGBTQ-friendly,” said Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director, Campus Pride.
“Students expect inclusive, equitable learning environments at colleges in all regions of the country. And as a basic standard, they demand campuses have LGBTQ-inclusive policies, programs and services. These forty campuses, across six diverse regions, are leading the charge,” Windmeyer said.
For nearly two decades, Campus Pride has advocated and supported college and university campuses to improve LGBTQ campus life and change institutional policies, programs and practices. The Campus Pride Index provides an invaluable benchmarking tool to assess LGBTQ-inclusion efforts from academics, to student life, to housing, to recruitment and retention activities.
There are nearly 400 colleges who have “come out” on the index and hundreds of thousands who utilize the public search to find LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities annually.
Of these 400, Campus Pride designated 40 the “Best of the Best.”
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